Bock
Meaning
- (masculine, strong) buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer
- (masculine, strong) a stubborn person
- (masculine, strong) a man who is lecherous or sexually active
- (informal, masculine, strong) a blunder, mistake
- (masculine, strong) box (driver's seat of a horse-drawn coach)
- (masculine, strong) an apparatus for performing jumps, similar to a vaulting horse but shorter.
Concepts
Synonyms
Auflagebock
Fez
Folterbank
Hirschbock
Kutschbock
heißer Ofen
Bokkie
Ziegenmännchen
Dachfirst
Erheiterung
Schafsbock
Translations
bok
bouc
boc
τράγος
cabrón
caprone
bode
caperFrequency
Dialects
Zürich
bock
Appenzell Innerrhoden
bock
Basel-Landschaft
bogg
Basel-Stadt
bock
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
[bɔk]
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German boc, poc, from Old High German boc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk. Cognate to English buck, Bavarian Bock, Dutch bok, Norwegian bukk, Swedish bock, Danish buk.
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